USA, 1800-1900 Flashcards
Presentation vase
Type: gift, vessel, commemorative
Materials/Techniques: silver
Creator/Culture: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner/American
Date/Period: 1824
Style Period: neoclassical
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Shelf clock
Type: clock
Materials/Techniques: glass, wood, lead, paper, brass
Creator/Culture: Eli Terry/American
Date/Period: ca. 1816-1825
Style Period: neoclassical
Repository: unknown
Pitcher and basin
Type: ceramics, ewer and bowl, washing, hygiene
Materials/Techniques: ironstone/white granite, press molded
Creator/Culture: J&G Meakin/English (Staffordshire)
Date/Period: 1859-1890
Style Period: design reform
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sideboard
Type: case furniture
Materials/Techniques: carved black walnut
Creator/Culture: Joseph Alexis Bailly/American (likely Philadelphia)
Date/Period: ca. 1855
Style Period: Renaissance Revival
Repository: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Kaolin Smoking Pipe
Type: smoking istrument
Materials/Techniques: ball clay (kaolin)
Creator/Culture:unknown/American (likely used in New York)
Date/Period: ca. 1892
Repository: Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University
Pictorial Quilt
Type: textile
Materials/Techniques: Pieced, appliquéd, and printed (plain weave) cotton embroidered with plain and metallic yarns
Creator/Culture: Harriet Powers/American
Date/Period: 1895-1898
Repository: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Illustration of Building the Railroad (Building the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska)
Type: printed illustration
Materials/Techniques: ink on paper
Creator/Culture: Alfred R. Waud/American
Date/Period: 1867
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Library, Washington DC
Mourning Hat
Type: occasion clothing
Materials/Techniques: feathers, crow, silk
Creator/Culture: Knox/American
Date/Period: ca. 1895
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sweatshop Photograph (Sweatshop in Ludlow Street Tenement, New York)
Type: print, photograph
Materials/Techniques: photograph
Creator/Culture: Jacob Riis/American (New York)
Date/Period: ca. 1889
Repository: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Tiffany Chapel Interior
Type: interior, room
Materials/Techniques: marble, glass and marble mosaic, leaded glass
Creator/Culture: Louis Comfort Tiffany (Tiffany Studios)/American (made in New York)
Date/Period: ca. 1893
Style Period: Aesthetic Movement
Repository: Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, FL
